Java Contracts in Glasgow

Java
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 132 157 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.93% 17.12% 12.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.77% 45.64% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 99 80
10th Percentile £388 £425 £324
25th Percentile £413 £474 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £640 £498
Median % change year-on-year -24.77% +28.64% +20.61%
75th Percentile £632 £719 £550
90th Percentile £750 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% -0.30% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.58 £46.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.86 £46.89
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.62 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £49.16
90th Percentile - £57.65 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -11.06% +8.31% +36.25%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 359 344 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.61% 37.51% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 230 201
10th Percentile £363 £410 £350
25th Percentile £413 £434 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +14.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £538
90th Percentile £690 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £483 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £51.88 £51.99 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +31.17% -32.33%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.06 £48.39
90th Percentile - £67.66 £49.08
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
% change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Glasgow over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Glasgow

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Glasgow

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.30%) SAS
3 3 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.27%) Confluence
4 2 (1.52%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.52%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.52%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (56.82%) AWS
2 27 (20.45%) Azure
3 12 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 8 (6.06%) GCP
5 6 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.03%) Serverless
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.52%) GitHub
8 2 (1.52%) npm
8 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.76%) IaaS
9 1 (0.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) HTTP
2 9 (6.82%) SSL
2 9 (6.82%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (5.30%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (5.30%) iSCSI
3 7 (5.30%) NetScaler
4 4 (3.03%) SAN
5 1 (0.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.58%) DB2
3 6 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (3.79%) MariaDB
4 5 (3.79%) MySQL
4 5 (3.79%) Oracle Database
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.27%) Big Data
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.52%) Power BI
7 2 (1.52%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.76%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) GIS
8 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.76%) HBase
8 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Git
2 15 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.58%) JIRA
4 9 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 7 (5.30%) JUnit
6 5 (3.79%) Mockito
7 4 (3.03%) Selenium
8 3 (2.27%) GitLab
8 3 (2.27%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.52%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.52%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.52%) Maven
9 2 (1.52%) Subversion
9 2 (1.52%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.76%) Gatling
10 1 (0.76%) JMeter
10 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 33 (25.00%) Finance
2 20 (15.15%) Banking
3 19 (14.39%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (6.06%) Financial Institution
7 7 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.52%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (59.85%) Developer
2 67 (50.76%) Java Developer
3 16 (12.12%) Java Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Linux Developer
4 15 (11.36%) Senior
5 14 (10.61%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (9.85%) Java Scala Developer
6 13 (9.85%) Scala Developer
7 12 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Senior Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.30%) Backend Developer
11 7 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.30%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (40.15%) Spring
2 37 (28.03%) Spring Boot
3 32 (24.24%) REST
4 26 (19.70%) AngularJS
5 23 (17.42%) RESTful
6 21 (15.91%) CSS
7 20 (15.15%) Kafka
8 18 (13.64%) HTML
9 12 (9.09%) JPA
9 12 (9.09%) React
10 7 (5.30%) Flash
10 7 (5.30%) POSIX
11 6 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.79%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.79%) JSON
12 5 (3.79%) OpenTracing
12 5 (3.79%) Twisted
13 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
13 4 (3.03%) XML
14 3 (2.27%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.85%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.79%) NVMe
5 4 (3.03%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.27%) Linux
2 23 (17.42%) Unix
3 7 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.55%) Windows
4 6 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.03%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (46.97%) Agile
2 53 (40.15%) Microservices
3 45 (34.09%) CI/CD
4 37 (28.03%) Software Engineering
5 33 (25.00%) SDLC
6 29 (21.97%) Full Stack Development
7 28 (21.21%) DevOps
8 21 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 15 (11.36%) Artificial Intelligence
9 15 (11.36%) Computer Science
9 15 (11.36%) Machine Learning
10 14 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (10.61%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (9.85%) Operational Stability
12 12 (9.09%) GitOps
13 11 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (8.33%) TDD
14 10 (7.58%) Data Engineering
14 10 (7.58%) OO
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.85%) SQL
2 37 (28.03%) Python
3 33 (25.00%) Scala
4 19 (14.39%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.88%) JavaScript
6 16 (12.12%) Perl
7 11 (8.33%) Bash
8 9 (6.82%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.79%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.03%) C#
11 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.76%) Groovy
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.52%) Degree
2 2 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (18.18%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) NFS
3 4 (3.03%) GPFS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.61%) Terraform
3 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.79%) Zipkin
4 4 (3.03%) Grafana
4 4 (3.03%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.76%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.76%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.76%) Icinga
5 1 (0.76%) Istio
5 1 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (9.09%) Databricks
1 12 (9.09%) Oracle
2 8 (6.06%) IBM
3 7 (5.30%) F5
4 5 (3.79%) Sybase
5 4 (3.03%) AVEVA
5 4 (3.03%) Brocade
5 4 (3.03%) EMC
5 4 (3.03%) Google
5 4 (3.03%) NetApp
5 4 (3.03%) Veritas
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.52%) Greenplum
7 2 (1.52%) Splunk
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.76%) Infoblox